Material Inscriptions by Andrzej Warminski
Focusing insistently on the practice of rhetorical reading, this book demonstrates how self-undoing of tropological systems necessarily generates narratives which turn out to be allegories of their own conditions of impossibility. It contains two essays on Paul de Man and literary theory, and an interview on the topic of 'Deconstruction at Yale'.
An extraordinary book of rigor and troubling originalityPart of what is so disturbing about Material Inscriptions is that it reads both literary texts (Wordsworth and others) and philosophical or theoretical texts (Hegel, Descartes, Nietzsche, de Man) in more or less the same way, that is, with special attention to the rhetorical dimension of language. * J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine *
A remarkable demonstration by one of Paul de Man’s most brilliant students of how rhetorically alert readings reveal a "material" dimension of texts that is otherwise imperceptible. Warminski’s work powerfully demonstrates the continuing fecundity of theoretically informed criticism when it respects the singularity of texts. * Samuel Weber, Northwestern University *
A remarkable demonstration by one of Paul de Man’s most brilliant students of how rhetorically alert readings reveal a "material" dimension of texts that is otherwise imperceptible. Warminski’s work powerfully demonstrates the continuing fecundity of theoretically informed criticism when it respects the singularity of texts. * Samuel Weber, Northwestern University *
Andrzej Warminski is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He has published Material Inscriptions: Rhetorical Reading in Practice and Theory with Edinburgh University Press (2013). He is also the author of Readings in Interpretation: Hölderlin, Hegel, Heidegger and the editor of Paul de Man’s Aesthetic Ideology.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780748681228 |
| ISBN 10 | 0748681221 |
| Title | Material Inscriptions |
| Author | Andrzej Warminski |
| Series | The Frontiers Of Theory |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2013-06-07 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
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